Brain Quote by Aleksandar Hemon

There's music every day. I don't think I could write without it. Not that I listen while I'm writing. It's more hearing a piece…

— Nick Hornby

For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain…

— John Hodgman

I always write my novels with music (I don't listened to the music seriously.) Music seems to encourage me.

— Haruki Murakami

I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of my manuscripts back to…

— Erik Larson

I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.

— Khaled Hosseini

I rarely listen to music while writing. I wish I could, but it distracts me.

— Mary Roach

I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my own juices…

— Billy Joel

I have to have music as a soundtrack to writing fiction. I listen to it at other times, too, but it helps me write.

— Jeff VanderMeer

I know a lot of people don't listen to music when they're writing because it distracts them, but for me it's almost a way…

— Dan Chaon

But I never listen to music while I'm writing.

— Stephen Greenblatt

If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.

— Austin Carlile

I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so…

— Vikram Seth